ELUCIDATING RECRUITMENT STRESSORS FOR THE MARYLAND STATE ENDANGERED COMMON TERN (Sterna hirundo) THROUGH USE OF A MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM

• Main Author: Marban, Paul Ramon
• Other Authors: Murrow, Jennifer L, Prosser, Diann J, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.), Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Wildlife conservation; Wildlife management; Ecology; common tern; island loss; Maryland; waterbird; Tern Island; Common tern; Sterna hirundo
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/21666; https://doi.org/10.13016/g5kh-tp08

In this thesis, I monitored two breeding colonies of the Maryland state endangered common tern (Sterna hirundo) using a surveillance system composed of video cameras and temperature loggers. This system was coupled with an in-depth image analysis of Landsat scenes to quantify island loss in the Ches...